Japanese photographer Miwa Yanagi has come up with some fantastic photos in tribute to her love of American and Japanese fairy tales. Check out her site here for more (including the "Windswept Women".)
For those of you who don't know, the orignal story of Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm told of the wolf eating both Red and her grandmother. It was Red's screams that brought the woodcutter to the grandmother's house to investigate. Upon seeing the wolf lying sleepily on the floor as it tried to digest its meal, the woodcutter chopped off its head, then split open the animal's belly, to reveal Red and her grandmother still alive inside.
actually, the story reads that the wood cutter slits the belly of the sleeping wolf to save the Grandmother and Little Red Cap. After saving the two, he fills the stomach of the wolfs with nearby rocks. The wolf struggles and fails to move, and eventually dies a long and terrible death.
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